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UAntwerp has launched the symbolic video game Corona Combat to mark the start of the second semester. Students, staff and sympathisers can bring out their inner Herman Goossens, Pierre Van Damme or Erika Vlieghe and do battle with virus particles. Professors Van Damme and Vlieghe had the honour of being the first to test the game.
We’re slowly seeing light at the end of the corona tunnel. But there are still many questions about the COVID-19 vaccines and the vaccination strategy. To answer these questions, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences organised a vaccination webinar especially for UAntwerp staff. You can rewatch it here, with English subtitles.
What was your experience with online education this spring? That’s the question we asked students and lecturers alike over the summer. Here’s an overview of the key results and good practices.
It may have taken blood, sweat and tears, but more than 2000 international students have found their way to our university this year – even amidst a pandemic. ‘Postponing everything for this virus? I don’t think so. Life goes on’, says Bernara Bakhtiiar from Kyrgyzstan.
Get ready for the most colourful page on this Pintra Blog. A page filled with flowers – lots of flowers.
How do you get more than 20,000 students to take exams while respecting the social distancing rules? The taskforce for corona-proof exams explains.
On the day that Belgian schools went into lockdown, Laure Staelens started her new job as a communications officer in the Study Information and Recruitment Service. Even today, she still hasn’t met her colleagues, which makes it difficult to establish a bond. “If you’ve never met someone before, it’s a bit strange to ask them how they’re doing.”
Prof. Maarten Weyn, lecturer in the Faculty of Applied Engineering, has started a YouTube channel: Weyn Tech. Fancy doing some tinkering? Check out Weyn Tech.
In these corona times, Els Crauwels, working at the dean’s office at FBD, gives yoga sessions on YouTube. Release the stress with these yoga exercises.
A lockdown, even a lockdown light, can be extra hard if you are an international student or staff member. MONDO, our university’s international community, invites you to a weekly virtual Coffee Break to exchange experiences or just have a chat.
As the weeks in lockdown go by, you start looking for new routes to cycle, or even better, you start turning your bike rides into experiments. Like cycling the University of Antwerp logo, for example
Patrice Perreault, teacher at the Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, finds it interesting to see how …